At this point in 2021, I'm willing to bet that the overwhelming majority of consumers use their internet service with wireless devices.
And most likely, much like my own service, my wireless performance isn't even close to my wired performance, and of course that speedtest in the average house will vary all based on the angsty teenager trying to run tests from the basement, and the three other people watching YouTube, streaming Netflix, and talking on Facetime.
Yeah, you get this a lot in smaller countries and cities where fibre installs are commonplace. Everyone has 1gbps fibre, but people are often complaining of slow connections, usually in 99% of cases it's because they are limited by their wireless setup - wether it's the edge of range, old equipment, obstacles etc. Sometimes people even complain of poor wired performance, turns out they were using a 10/100 nic, or a usb2 to ethernet adapter etc.
Connect directly with a decent gigabit ethernet card and you'll get very close to 1gbps to the local speedtest servers.
Exercise in futility. (Score:2, Insightful)
At this point in 2021, I'm willing to bet that the overwhelming majority of consumers use their internet service with wireless devices.
And most likely, much like my own service, my wireless performance isn't even close to my wired performance, and of course that speedtest in the average house will vary all based on the angsty teenager trying to run tests from the basement, and the three other people watching YouTube, streaming Netflix, and talking on Facetime.
In other words, think about the average tech ig
Re:Exercise in futility. (Score:3)
Yeah, you get this a lot in smaller countries and cities where fibre installs are commonplace. Everyone has 1gbps fibre, but people are often complaining of slow connections, usually in 99% of cases it's because they are limited by their wireless setup - wether it's the edge of range, old equipment, obstacles etc. Sometimes people even complain of poor wired performance, turns out they were using a 10/100 nic, or a usb2 to ethernet adapter etc.
Connect directly with a decent gigabit ethernet card and you'll get very close to 1gbps to the local speedtest servers.